Recaps

Chen Jue welcomed Yun Xiaomei's landing party to Second Home and learned that his Ten Body-Tempering Forms had transformed Earth and enabled the mission. After carrying the party's supplies to a campsite, he left them wondering what had scorched the ground there.

• Little Parrot willingly learned from Yun Xiaomei, then flew her into the sky while the landing party began unloading supplies.
• Sun Wu told Chen Jue that the Ten Body-Tempering Forms had fueled a global cultivation craze and helped Earth build a lunar spacecraft; Yun Xiaomei had perfected the tenth form.
• Chen Jue lifted several-ton supply crates with ease and carried them down the mountain, astonishing the landing party.
• Chen Jue led the party to a campsite marked by burned trees, carbonized ground, and lingering heat, prompting them to speculate about an attack.

Chen Jue helped the new expedition team establish their camp, then assisted Xiao Mu in setting up a weather-monitoring and radio-relay device on the summit. After showing off his extraordinary strength, Chen Jue revealed the large cave he had excavated, leaving Xiao Mu astonished.

• Chen Jue worked with Sun Wu and the others to unpack supplies and build a camp, while Xiao Mu assessed the team's needs and plans for future cabins.
• Chen Jue drove Xiao Mu to the summit and gouged a hole into rock with his fingers after Xiao Mu's electric drill ran out of power.
• Chen Jue pressed three alloy nails into the rock with his fingers to secure the weather instrument's support collar.
• Xiao Mu activated the instrument, which monitored weather conditions and relayed radio signals back to camp.
• Chen Jue went to retrieve supplies from his cave, and Xiao Mu marveled at the large, apartment-sized chamber Chen Jue had dug into the mountain.

Chen Jue welcomed Mu Yin’s team to camp and helped them secure fresh food for a celebratory meal. He then stunned Liu Jun by felling a gigantic alien tree with an entrenching shovel and a powerful kick.

• Chen Jue returned to camp with Mu Yin and supply crates, where Luo Qiong and the others were preparing a stove and discussing their shortage of food and seasonings.
• Little Parrot brought back two Luoyu Fish after Yun Xiaomei showed how it had blasted them out of a river, and Chen Jue identified the fish as safe and delicious.
• The team divided up tasks to prepare a welcome feast, while Yun Xiaomei and Little Parrot went to play in the woods.
• Chen Jue offered to cut down a giant tree for Liu Jun, who was measuring the unusual trees near camp.
• Chen Jue hacked through the tree’s massive trunk with repeated shovel strikes, then leaped between nearby trees and kicked it down as Liu Jun watched in shock.

Chen Jue helped Liu Jun turn a felled giant tree into boards and a water tank, then sent Little Parrot to fetch water for camp. When the camp struggled to light a cooking fire, Chen Jue ignited the wood with flames from his palm, leaving Xiao Mu astonished.

• Chen Jue chopped the fallen tree into boards for Liu Jun and hollowed out a log to make a large water tank.
• Chen Jue made buckets and persuaded Yun Xiaomei to take Little Parrot to fetch water from the lake.
• Chen Jue and Liu Jun carried the remaining timber back to camp, where the team struggled to light a fire with damp wood.
• Chen Jue used scarlet-gold flames from his palm to ignite a thick strip of wood for the cooking fire.
• Xiao Mu grabbed Chen Jue's arm and asked if he had used the legendary Shaolin Fire Cloud Palm.

Chen Jue demonstrated his new alloy Bionic Wings and used Martial Dao Gang Qi to fly at supersonic speed across Second Home. He explained the basics of cultivating Gang Qi to Yun Xiaomei and prepared to test whether she was ready to learn it.

• Chen Jue reassured Mu Yin that transcendence could come through steady practice of the Ten Body-Tempering Forms.
• Luo Qiong delivered the custom-made alloy Bionic Wings, and Chen Jue mounted them on his Aerospace Combat Suit and flew from camp.
• Chen Jue found Yun Xiaomei and Little Parrot, then challenged them to race to the lake.
• Chen Jue used Gang Qi jets to break the sound barrier, reached 610 meters per second, and landed at the lake after covering dozens of kilometers.
• Yun Xiaomei arrived with Little Parrot, and Chen Jue explained Martial Dao Gang Qi before inviting her to spar so he could assess her readiness to learn it.

Chen Jue evaluated Yun Xiaomei’s martial arts and explained how she could advance beyond the Ten Body-Tempering Forms, including the use of life ore as a cultivation aid. He discovered that Yun Xiaomei could interpret Bai Ze’s roars, which seemed to reveal that the beast was in pain and wanted to leave its guarded territory.

• Yun Xiaomei demonstrated all Ten Body-Tempering Forms, and Chen Jue sensed her innate Unity of Heaven and Man state and budding beast-inspired martial dao true intent.
• Chen Jue explained the transcendent level and demonstrated the Pure Yang Skill’s Gang energy, then advised Yun Xiaomei to develop her own cultivation method.
• Chen Jue gave Yun Xiaomei life ore and explained that its concentrated True Qi could speed her physical cultivation.
• Yun Xiaomei explained that she could understand Little Parrot because its calls resembled Earth birds’ sounds.
• Chen Jue imitated Bai Ze’s roars, and Yun Xiaomei translated them as a plea for help, saying Bai Ze was in pain and wanted to be taken away.

Chen Jue taught Yun Xiaomei spiritual cultivation and took her to practice communicating with alien beasts before bringing her to meet the aggressive Kui Oxen. The chapter ended as one Kui Ox attacked them with lightning and Chen Jue caught the bolts in his hands.

• Chen Jue taught Yun Xiaomei the Five Senses and Six Perceptions Skill and explained how cultivation and the planet's life ore affected the landing team.
• The team settled into camp, discussed their first day, and practiced the Ten Body-Tempering Forms together.
• Chen Jue gave Liu Jun two Huai Tree seeds to cultivate and pointed out an Immortal Tree for him to study.
• Chen Jue took Yun Xiaomei beyond the Safe Zone, where she soothed a Feiyi and demonstrated her ability to communicate with wild beasts.
• Chen Jue and Yun Xiaomei entered the misty swamp and approached a Kui Ox, which fired lightning at them after Chen Jue asked to be friends.
• Chen Jue caught the Kui Ox's two lightning bolts in his hands.

Chen Jue subdued the lightning-wielding Kui Ox, then studied its unusual body and breathing until he created the [Kui Ox Guiding Technique]. He left Yun Xiaomei to learn the beast’s methods through observation, and she began practicing beside it.

• Chen Jue met the Kui Ox’s charge head-on and pinned it to the ground, withstanding its lightning attacks.
• Yun Xiaomei spoke with the subdued Kui Ox, which agreed not to attack them and offered part of its territory.
• Chen Jue examined the Kui Ox’s hide, muscles, breathing, and roar, noticing how its physiology integrated the training of essence, Qi, and spirit.
• Chen Jue synchronized his breathing with the Kui Ox and developed the [Kui Ox Guiding Technique].
• Chen Jue urged Yun Xiaomei to study the Kui Ox’s breathing and stance herself, and she began observing and imitating it.

Chen Jue strengthened himself with the Kui Ox Guiding Technique until his strength and constitution surpassed 10, then traveled with Yun Xiaomei to confront Bai Ze. He wounded Bai Ze with gang qi and began cutting through its defenses, leaving their battle underway.

• Yun Xiaomei learned the Kui Ox’s breathing resonance and one-legged stance as Chen Jue guided her in Cloud-Mist Swamp.
• Chen Jue practiced the Kui Ox Guiding Technique for several days, raising his strength and constitution above 10 before setting out west with Yun Xiaomei.
• Chen Jue gave Sun Wu and Luo Qiong a special Buddhist Chant Resonance session before the journey, while he and Yun Xiaomei reached the desert after five days and found the Huai Tree and Flying Squirrels gone.
• Chen Jue and Yun Xiaomei reached Bai Ze’s Mine Pit, where Chen Jue hurled a gang-qi-coated spear into Bai Ze and discovered its old wounds had healed.
• Bai Ze attacked with a storm of spikes, but Chen Jue dodged them and slashed a deep wound into its foreleg, cutting through its five-colored barrier.

Chen Jue fought Bai Ze in the mining pit, broke through its psychic defenses, and severed its horns with a powerful sword strike. Bai Ze regenerated and regained its sanity, then thanked Chen Jue through Yun Xiaomei, who explained that its horns had been overloading its mind with psychic energy.

• Chen Jue battled Bai Ze, using his martial gang energy to withstand its attacks and shatter its condensed psychic barrier.
• Chen Jue spent his remaining Free Attribute Points on constitution, empowered his sword light, and cut Bai Ze's horns off.
• Bai Ze regenerated its wounds and changed into a calm, lucid state as five-colored light returned to its broken horns.
• Chen Jue called Yun Xiaomei down and asked her to communicate with Bai Ze.
• Yun Xiaomei translated Bai Ze's thanks and explained that its psychic energy had overwhelmed its mind until Chen Jue cut off its horns.

Chen Jue and Yun Xiaomei learned that Bai Ze’s mind-energy overload had caused its illness, then followed the recovered beast into its crystal-filled cavern. There, they uncovered an ancient Bai Ze Diagram whose power awakened a new Bai Ze aspect in Yun Xiaomei’s Intent of Ten Thousand Beasts.

• Chen Jue realized Bai Ze’s broken horns were supernatural organs that detected energy fluctuations, and Yun Xiaomei explained that excessive mind energy had overwhelmed its brain.
• Yun Xiaomei befriended Bai Ze, and the beast led her, Chen Jue, and Little Parrot into its cavern.
• Chen Jue found that the cavern’s natural mind crystals held untainted energy, while Bai Ze’s enormous crystal bed radiated it in overwhelming abundance.
• Bai Ze dug up a bronze scroll depicting thousands of exotic beasts, and Chen Jue recognized it as the legendary Bai Ze Diagram.
• Yun Xiaomei’s breath activated the diagram, which formed a virtual Bai Ze from mind energy and sent its power into her, adding Bai Ze to her Intent of Ten Thousand Beasts.

Chen Jue used the Bai Ze Diagram to learn the Bai Ze Guiding Technique and absorbed so much mind energy that he developed extraordinary mental perception. He discovered that his brain cells were becoming abnormal and dividing, leaving him fearing he had given himself brain cancer.

• Yun Xiaomei absorbed the Bai Ze Diagram's mind energy, merged with Bai Ze's true essence, and lay down to rest with Bai Ze's help.
• Chen Jue activated the bronze scroll and learned the Bai Ze Guiding Technique as mind energy strengthened his brain and filled his Heavenly Eye.
• Bai Ze warned Yun Xiaomei that Chen Jue was absorbing too much mind energy, but he was too immersed in cultivation to hear her.
• Chen Jue's Five Senses and Six Perceptions Skill reached Lv8 and awakened Manas Consciousness before painful pressure forced him to stop cultivating.
• Chen Jue's new mental field mapped the entire cavern, but he saw that his brain cells were becoming abnormal and dividing, and feared he had developed brain cancer.

After Chen Jue’s brain began changing in an uncertain way, he discovered that his new Manas Consciousness heightened his perception of time and space. The Bronze Mask boosted brain cultivation but worsened his swelling pain, and Bai Ze offered to lead the group to the desert place where it had found the mask and a bronze scroll.

• Chen Jue examined his transforming brain and feared that uncontrolled cell growth could become dangerous, but he found no immediate way to manage it.
• Chen Jue reviewed his updated attributes and learned that his Intelligence measured his brain domain, while Manas Consciousness enhanced his perception of changes in time and space.
• Yun Xiaomei told Chen Jue that eight hours had passed during his epiphany and that Little Parrot was resting after flying.
• Bai Ze recognized the Bronze Mask as its own, and Yun Xiaomei explained that a red bird had later taken it.
• Chen Jue inserted a Mind Crystal into the Bronze Mask, which drew in mind energy and increased his brain cultivation, though it worsened his head pain.
• Yun Xiaomei tried the mask, and Bai Ze told her it and the bronze scroll had come from a special desert location where it could lead them to find more things.

Chen Jue and Yun Xiaomei entered radioactive ruins in the desert and discovered a bronze mural that Chen Jue's Gang Qi activated. Yun Xiaomei recognized its depiction of an ox sacrifice as an ancient Derung ceremony.

• Chen Jue and Yun Xiaomei rode Bai Ze across scorching black sand to a ruined stone fortress, where their devices detected dangerous radiation.
• Bai Ze explained that it could not enter the fortress, so Chen Jue and Yun Xiaomei went inside to investigate.
• They followed a long, carved passage into a dark chamber containing a bronze tree-like structure and murals.
• Chen Jue lit the chamber with Gang Qi, which flowed into and activated a bronze mural.
• The illuminated mural showed humanoids sacrificing a one-legged Kui Ox, and Yun Xiaomei identified the scene as the Derung's ox-slaughtering sacrifice to heaven.

Chen Jue and Yun Xiaomei deciphered murals that linked ancient myths to the Alien Planet’s history, including the Battle Against Chi You and a catastrophe that formed the moon. Their exploration ended abruptly when a Vermilion Bird appeared at the rock fortress, pinning Little Parrot beneath its claws as Bai Ze confronted it.

• Chen Jue and Yun Xiaomei studied murals depicting Derung-like people making Kui Ox Drums and using them against Chi You’s army.
• Yun Xiaomei identified Fuxi and Nüwa in another mural, and Chen Jue noticed the deities had seven-colored gems between their brows and intertwined snake tails.
• Chen Jue and Yun Xiaomei interpreted murals of Gonggong’s catastrophe, Nüwa mending the sky, and two celestial bodies merging to form the moon.
• Chen Jue concluded that the murals recorded an advanced civilization’s history, but the remaining murals were unfinished and revealed nothing of its fate.
• The stone chamber shook, and Chen Jue led Yun Xiaomei outside, where they found a Vermilion Bird confronting Bai Ze with Little Parrot beneath its claws.

Chen Jue learned that the Vermilion Bird suffered from energy building up in its body and saw that its physical form was becoming energy-like, much like the Gang Qi he cultivated. The discovery raised questions about the limits of his cultivation, and he resolved to study Daoist knowledge more systematically once he returned to Earth.

• The Vermilion Bird released Little Parrot after Bai Ze agreed to let it use the seven-colored gemstones in Bai Ze's nest to treat its illness.
• Yun Xiaomei translated that the Vermilion Bird could not control the energy within its body, which had damaged its physical form.
• The Vermilion Bird gave Chen Jue a feather whose gelatinous, energy-filled structure resembled his martial dao gang qi.
• The Vermilion Bird warned Chen Jue that his similar energy might cause the same illness as his cultivation advanced.
• Chen Jue asked whether the Vermilion Bird could fly beyond the planet, and Yun Xiaomei explained that its energy would disperse if it flew too high.
• Chen Jue wondered whether the Vermilion Bird's energy-like body approached the Void Level and recognized that he lacked the knowledge to understand the process.

Chen Jue traveled with Bai Ze and Yun Xiaomei to the Vermilion Bird’s irradiated nest and acquired a sun-shaped bronze disc. By observing the Vermilion Bird cultivate, Chen Jue learned the Vermilion Bird Guidance Technique and began absorbing its energy, leaving his body transforming rapidly.

• Chen Jue and Yun Xiaomei followed the Vermilion Bird across a scorching, radioactive desert to its nest in a vast crater.
• The Vermilion Bird exchanged its collection for Bai Ze’s Mind Energy crystals, and Bai Ze selected a bronze disc that Yun Xiaomei recognized as a sun symbol.
• Back at Bai Ze’s lair, Chen Jue watched the Vermilion Bird absorb a crystal to restrain the unstable energy in its body, and Yun Xiaomei explained that excess in any part of the body-mind-energy balance caused imbalance.
• Chen Jue gained insight into the Vermilion Bird’s breathing and created the Vermilion Bird Guidance Technique through his Attribute Panel.
• Chen Jue resonated with the Vermilion Bird, drawing its excess energy through a Gang Qi bridge while the bronze disc flickered and absorbed some of the aura.
• The Vermilion Bird’s energy stimulated Chen Jue’s blood, bone marrow, and heart, causing his constitution attribute to rise as heat radiated from his body.

After a radiation-fueled transformation greatly increased Chen Jue’s power, he discovered that it had also caused a dangerous mutation and sharply reduced his lifespan. He decided to return to Earth to study the cultivation path, leaving Yun Xiaomei and the Exotic Beasts behind with a promise to come back.

• Chen Jue’s three-day transformation filled his body with Martial Dao Gang Qi and changed his blood, but his Attribute Panel revealed [Radiation Mutation] and a lifespan loss of more than a hundred years.
• Chen Jue realized that imitating the Exotic Beasts’ cultivation techniques had exposed him to dangerous radiation, even as his strength and Gang Qi storage increased dramatically.
• Chen Jue told Yun Xiaomei he would return to Earth to study the transition from manifestation to the void level, and she encouraged him to go while she continued her own training.
• Little Parrot returned with supplies and clung affectionately to Chen Jue, while Yun Xiaomei gave him the Sun Wheel on Bai Ze’s behalf.
• As Chen Jue prepared to leave, Yun Xiaomei kissed his cheek, and he promised to return before flying out of the nest.

After returning to the Safe Zone, Chen Jue prepared to leave Second Home and travel back to Earth, while learning that Sun Wu and Luo Qiong had reached the Transcendent Level. As Chen Jue’s return capsule departed the Moon, the sun disc began to glow, and Earth’s base rushed to receive him.

• Chen Jue returned to the Safe Zone and found that the camp had built cabins, cultivated farmland, and begun firing bricks for a fortress.
• Chen Jue showed the camp members the sun disc and described the ruins and inscriptions he had discovered; Sun Wu and Luo Qiong congratulated him on their martial progress and thanked him for his guidance.
• After resting, Chen Jue set off through the Wormhole Tunnel carrying the sun disc and life ore, then reached his return capsule on the Moon.
• Chen Jue contacted the Ground Base and launched toward Earth, but the sun disc began humming and glowing reddish-gold as the capsule entered space.
• Elder Zhong and Liu Chengdong hurried to the Monitoring Hall after receiving word that Chen Jue was returning.

On his return from the moon, Chen Jue asked the base to gather specialists and equipment to investigate the radiation mutation threatening his body. As his Golden Body Skill reached perfection, the Sun Wheel he carried triggered an anomalous solar flare, disrupting spacecraft and cutting off his capsule’s communications just before atmospheric entry.

• Chen Jue examined the Sun Wheel, then spoke with Liu Chengdong and Elder Zhong, who congratulated him and promised to arrange equipment and experts for his return.
• Chen Jue asked for radiation-monitoring and MRI equipment, specialists in nuclear physics, biology, and archaeology, and explained that he needed help resolving his Radiation Mutation.
• During the return journey, Chen Jue trained until his Mortal World Golden Body Skill reached perfection, granting him the Immaculate Golden Body status and greatly strengthening his bones.
• With less than two hours until landing, Chen Jue switched the return capsule to autopilot as the ground team monitored its approach to Earth.
• The Sun Wheel emitted a powerful signal toward the sun, which erupted in an unusual flare that sent electromagnetic waves and particles toward Earth.
• The solar disturbance disabled satellites and the Space Station, then knocked out Chen Jue’s console and severed communications with the Ground Base.

A solar storm disabled communications and damaged the return capsule carrying Chen Jue, sending it into an uncontrolled early descent. The Monitoring Hall calculated that it would land in Eagle Country’s Area 15, and Elder Zhong contacted the Beidu Office to report the emergency.

• A powerful solar flare knocked out the return capsule’s electronics and cut communications with Chen Jue, the Space Station, and satellites across the Northern Hemisphere.
• Elder Zhong ordered staff to inspect recordings and restore contact, while the emergency teams began rebooting the spacecraft and satellites.
• The Space Station restored emergency power, but the return capsule’s communications and engine control chips failed, leaving it unable to correct its shifted orbit.
• The Supercomputer predicted that the capsule would avoid other spacecraft but land in a Nevada desert region of Eagle Country.
• Liu Chengdong recognized the landing site as Area 15, and Elder Zhong called the Beidu Office to report the situation.

After an electromagnetic disaster sent Chen Jue’s return capsule off course, he landed in Eagle Country’s Area 15 and found himself surrounded by troops ordered to capture him. Chen Jue escaped their attack by flying away at more than four times the speed of sound, leaving the soldiers unable to hit him.

• Bonat and Jenny learned that Chen Jue’s capsule would land in Area 15 and mobilized troops to capture him for intelligence about Second Home.
• Chen Jue used the capsule’s mechanical controls to land safely, then emerged into a wasteland and spotted approaching Eagle Country forces.
• When the soldiers ordered him to surrender, Chen Jue escaped his Spacesuit, unfolded his wings, and leapt into the air.
• Bonat saw Chen Jue take flight and canceled the capture-alive order, authorizing all units to fire.
• Chen Jue accelerated past Mach 4 and outran the soldiers’ bullets, while they reported that their fire could not catch him.

Chen Jue outran Eagle Country’s pursuit and evaded an F-35 formation with a sudden vertical maneuver, then used their missiles to destroy one fighter and clung to another. The remaining pilots watched in shock as Chen Jue landed on Jimmy’s aircraft.

• Bonat ordered radar tracking, F-22 interceptors, and a base-wide deployment after Chen Jue flew beyond gun range at more than Mach 4.56.
• Bonat and Jenny relayed Chen Jue’s course to west coast bases and requested a cross-regional joint operation while Chen Jue continued west and sensed fighters pursuing him.
• Eight F-35s intercepted Chen Jue, launching three missiles and firing their cannons as he approached head-on.
• Chen Jue braked in midair and shot vertically upward, evading the cannon fire and missiles before the missiles turned back toward him.
• Chen Jue maneuvered past an F-35, causing the missiles to strike and destroy it, then landed on another F-35 and pierced its wings with his fingers.

Chen Jue overwhelmed an Eagle Country F-35 squadron, captured Jimmy’s fighter, and flew it toward a West Coast naval and air base before the military remotely disabled it. He escaped the fighter’s destruction by diving into the harbor, where the pursuing aircraft lost track of him underwater.

• Jimmy and the other F-35 pilots encountered Chen Jue, whose speed and heat signature made him difficult to target, and George died in the first attack.
• Chen Jue climbed onto Jimmy’s fighter and punched through its rear panels to reach the cockpit, prompting Jimmy to eject in terror.
• Chen Jue commandeered the canopyless F-35 and flew west, while the remaining pilots reported that he had captured the aircraft.
• Pentagon generals ordered the captured fighter shut down, and the disabled aircraft plunged toward a naval and air base as its defenses opened fire.
• Chen Jue leaped from the fighter, dodged antiaircraft fire with Gang Qi, and plunged into the harbor as the F-35 exploded.
• The pursuing pilots reported that Chen Jue had gone underwater and disappeared from their radar and heat sensors.

Chen Jue evaded Eagle Country’s sonar pursuit, cut the towed sonar arrays, and cleared a naval minefield by leaping through the air. He headed toward the Third Fleet after spotting Japan’s Izumo among the ships.

• Eagle Country mobilized ships, aircraft, and sonar equipment to locate Chen Jue after he swam offshore.
• Sonar operators detected Chen Jue moving underwater at over eighty knots, and commanders ordered mines and torpedoes deployed to intercept him.
• Chen Jue turned toward the pursuing ships and severed more than twenty towed sonar cables, disabling their arrays.
• Chen Jue accelerated past the slower torpedoes and leaped over a minefield as the torpedoes struck it and exploded.
• Chen Jue cut the sonar cables trailing three antisubmarine helicopters, then stepped onto the resulting wave and headed toward the Third Fleet after spotting Japan’s Izumo.